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Title: Geo-graph formations of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A geo-graph of formation of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in comparison to the geo-graph of formation of the Santa Monica Mountains. Altitudes for Sierra Nevada are as follows: Coast Ranges - alt. 4000-5000 ft; San Joaquin Valley - alt. 300-400 ft; Mount Whitney - alt. 14000 ft; and Owens Valley - alt. 6000 ft. Photo dated: February 8, 1938.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067690
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 305 4x5
CARL0000072959
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2970
Subject: Maps
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Charts, diagrams, etc
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)--Charts, diagrams, etc
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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